Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 25, 1901, Page 4

OMAHA DAI CURRENT NEWS OF 10WA. _ COUNCIL FIRE ESCAPES FOR LIBRARY Trustes Baird Determined to Have O men Act. WILL URGE THE MATTER PUBLICLY TONIGHT Boand ot Let the M bat to Lae Every Meana to Have the Rullding Properly Fauipped. ‘ er Drop, As the municipal authorities do not seem 18 any hurry to move in the matter, Trustee Baird of the public library will call upon Be city council at its meeting tonight to enforce the ordinance providing for the erection of fire escapes on public and other buildings. The Merriam block, in which the public library is situated, fs still with sut fire escapes and as far as is known (he fire and light committee of the city souncll, which fs understood to have the enforcing of the ordinance in its hands, has not notified Mr. Merriam to comply with its provisions The fire escape ordinance was passed in August, 1889, and provides that all bulld ipgs within the corporate limits of the sty of Councll Bluffs three stories high or over And all opera houses, theaters, botels, public halls, lodgerooms, museums. lecture rooms, public lihraries, school- houses and bufldings used for places for amusements of any kind and all buildings whereln crowds of people are finvited to wssemble for any purpose, and all hospitals and convents, shall be provided with stair- way fire escapes. For a while the ordinance was enforced w04 many of the larger buildings in the tity were equipped with the required fir secapes, but none were ever placed on the Merriam block, which is three stories high and covers almost a block of ground The trustees of the public library called the attention of Mr. Merriam to the lack of fire escapes aud, this falling In its pur- pose, they referred the matter to the city souneil. Large numbers of children gather in the rooms occupied by the public library and the trustees are determined that fire cs- :apes shall be provided. at least at that #nd of the building When azked yesterday why the ordinance was not enforeed as regaras the Merriam block Mavor Jennings said he had not given the matter much attention, supposing that the fire and light committee ought o look after it. Trustee Baird says he will not let the matter drop and will use wvery means in his power to have the Ibrary equipped with the proper fire es- sapes Davis sells glasi & Panlm. Rev. W. J. Calfee, pastor of the Broadway Methodist church, preached his Thanksgiv ng sermon yeaterday morniog to his con- gregation, as on Thanksgiving, on account ot the union services, there will be no service in the Broadway church. His tople was “The Thanksgiving Psalm.” He sald ““This Is our annual week of thanksgiving; let it be full of praise. In our homes, in tocial ard business circles, in our publiec achools, on the publle highway and around the altars of our churches, with everything that lath breath, let us praise the Lord Muslc Is the fittest way for man to pralse his Creator. If you do not believe it, read the paalme of David, Tsrael's sweet singer. We should belleve in making much of the music in our churches, not only #inging, but in congregational singing as well “With stringed instrument and trumpe:, with song, with aeollan harp soft an’ sweet, and the loud sounding cymbal, i1 the gentle murmurs of childhood and the shout of the strong. vigorous manhood of our community, through the plaintive cry of the iovalid sufferer and the rollicking glce of fresh, healthful youth, let God be Ppraised.” Gravel roofing. A. H. Rend, 541 Broadway Progress of Paving Contractor Wickham expects to compiete the paving of North Sixth street today. He ‘will then begin on North Seventh and North Eighth street These streets are to he paved with Des Moines brick for top course, of which Mr. Wickham is receiving 50,000 s day. Shipments of Galesburg brick are still few and far between and Mr. Wickbam said yesterday he would complete the pav- Ing of South Sixth street to Fifth avenue and First avenue from Pearl to Sixth street E———e————— An Ideal Gift The mift of a watch to a relative or dear one ln alway o delicats (nken and & coni nt reminder of vour love and es- teem A watch possesses for women a_m: terfous and subtle charm to which n other jewel, however valuable, wiith the Possible exception of the ring, can lay ciaim. We have this season the daintiest and most_compiete assortment of ladles’ fine atches 1t has ever heen our privilege to show. HERMAN M. LEFFERT Optician, Jeweler and Engraver. G 208 BROADWAY, Opposits Glen Avenue, Councll Blufts LEWIS CUTLER Funeral Dln%t?vu, e PRARE il FARM LOANS 6.Ii% " bl Il wome "t o 0%‘.(.‘ in Eastern o ‘Maln B Ney lowa Steam Dye Works 204 BROADWAY, COUNCIL BLUFF our old clothes look Iike new. 3. DYEING and REPAIRING Phone A621 P in choir | *R0 B | tor demolishing 143 windows, 113 belng larke | BLUFFS. Land that would be all the paving this wintar in the Fourth ward MINOR MENTION, Davie seils drugs. Btockert salls carpets and ruge Metz beer at Neumayer's ho Dre. Green, office 303 Sapp bioek Welsbach burners. Bixby & Son Elegant X'mas photos at Schmidt's Wollman, ecfentific optician, 48 Broadway. Dr. Gtephenson, Baldwin block. Elevator. Missour| oak body wood, $6.6) cord. Wm. Welch, 33 N. Main st. Tel. 128 New shipments of elegant picture frame mouldings at . ¥ Alexander & Co.'s Mite Letson of Fifth avenue is home from a three weeks' visit in Kansas City. Alexander Legge, formerly of this city, now a resident of Chicago, ls hers visiting friends. Winter term Western Jlowa college beging December 2. Classes organized in all de- partments. Our preseription tion. Dell G, Morgan, Broadway e Mary E. ol Vonterdny Allendale, Mo, Radiant Home stove, guaranteed not to crack. Bold by Petersen & Schoening, Merrlam block, Luctue Wells arrived yesterday from Peorta, 11l to be with until after Thanksgiving The Dodge Light Guards foot ball team {6 putting In heavy practice for it game Thanksgiving with Tabor college. Walter Goodrich has reported to the police the theft of his new winter beaver overcoat from the Metropolitan hotel. The Derthick leub will glve its semi- monthly musical this evening in Royal Arcanum hall. A strong program has been brepared The second of the series of spelling con- tests fn the public schools, arranged by Buperintendent Clifford, will be Friday affernoon Jim Willlams was the name given hy a man_arrested yesterday on suspiclon of being a person wanted in Hastings, Neb., for forgery. Petersen & Schoening, Merriam block, have the most complete lins of Hot Blast oves i the city and at prices that will surprise you. James Murphy and J. W. Wallace were arrested vesterday in & Hroadway saloon, where it is alleged they were trying to rob an old man who was under the influence ot liquor. Mise Nellle Stevenson, member of the Lincoln basket ball team which played the Omaha High school team Friday evening, is the guest of her cousin, Stymest Steven- son, and wife, George Beno, 6-vear-old son of Adolph Beno, may lose the sight of his right eve as the result of an accident Friday even- ing, He was struck in the eye by an arrow white playing with a smail companion The farewell reception tonight to Rev. J W. Wilson at the Congregational church is not confined to the membern of the church, but all friends of the pastor are invited to attend. The reception will be from 8 to 10:30, The motor department s partac- the drugmist T Clark and daughter Millfe on a vislt to relatives in morning s family re company 1s preparing to fill the slough under iis trestle at Thirty- seventh strect, between Aveonue A and Broadway. The slough was formerly a wettiing basin for the water works com- any. The ety councll will meet tonight, when City Solfcitor Wadsworth will submit his report as to the liability of the city in the matter of the pay of the speclal policemen employed on election day at the voting booths. Hans Peterson, a farmer of Hazel Dell, who was severely injured in & motor accl- dent on_Broadway, I8 In 8t, Bernard's hos- pital. He was seized with convulsions while shopping in Beno & Co.'s store Saturday night. Rey. George Edward Walk. rector of 8t. Paul's Eplscopal church, wili go this week to Bloux City, where next Sunday he wiil delfver an address at the Elks'’ memorlal services. Next Thursday he wiil deliver an address before the Men's club in Cedar Raplds, Ta. John Saundery el Bluffs, and a colored eftizen of Coun- % veteran of the civil war, has gone to Loulsville, Ky.. to visit rela- tives whom he has not seen for thirty-three years, Saunders recenty received con- iderable sum in back pension from the government N, 8. Link, emploved by a local dairy- man, put up & stff fight last night when | arrested for drunkenness 1t took four | officers to get him to the clty jall, but | once inside he wilted and permitted’ Ser- geant Burke to lock him ui in the steel Sell Without offering any further resiatance. Newton Gallup, who was injured in a col- lislon with a motor two weeks ago, 18 able to it up part of the time. His ‘injurfes have proved more serlous than was sup- losed 'at the time of the acddent. Tt wiil e some time before he can be removed to \is home {n Garner township. He is at the home of his daughter on East Pierce street i N. Y. Plumbing Co., telephone 250. Marshall County Offie! MARSHALLTOWN, Ia., cial.)—The cases inst of the indicted county officials, which indictments caused o sensation when announced | a few days @ago, have been dis- missed. The trial of Supervisors Har- grave and Williams was commenced, but the court refused to admit testimony which was deemed essential by the prosecution and as soon as it was ruled out the county attorney dismissed the cal They were accused of having made a deal with the Northwestern railroad by which the county did about $400 worth of grading which ought to have been done at the company's expense. 1t was shown that the members {of the board and other county officials in- | terested ‘ecelved mileage on the railroad as an Inducement to have the work done in this way. But t(he prosecution could not form the counection between the work and the mileago books and the cases were thrown out. One other case remains, that ageinst Insanity Commissioner Devine, but it will go in the same way. The termin tlon of the cases caused no surprise Engincer's Sudden Death NEVADA, Ia., Nov. 24.—(Special.)—B. D. Potter, a locomotive engineer, whose home was in Denver, died suddenly while her | at the home of his sister, where he was recuperating from an attack of mountain fover. He was playing with the children and dropped dead suddenly. The body was #ent to Denver for burial entdent 11 LEMARS, TIa., Nov. 24.--(Special.)-Dr. H. H. Thoren, president of Western Union college in thia city, 15 Iying at his home dangerously 11l with pneumonis. He had been attending the meeting of the Religious | Bducational sociely at lowa City and on his return was taken il ILUNATIC SMASHES GLASS Windows to the Amonnt of Five Thou- @ Dollars Are Destroyed n Few EATON, 0., Nov. M.—Between midnight | and Bunday morning about 5,00 worth of | plate glams windows fn the business por- | tion of this town were broken by Willlam | Rossman, who had vecently been dis- | ¢harged from the Asylum for the Insane at | | Dayton as cured. Rossman used stones | plate glaws the windows ouses. Roseman family liberately n of husiness | ia a member of a promin Ha remained up all night de for hix work of general destruc- tlon. Rossman would have smashed sl the windows in the town had he not been | caugit and with diffeuity landed in jail. ‘ His hands are badly cut and he is being tended by a physician. His mania before Congross Asked to Pass Laws Which Will Affaot the Tama Reservation STRONG MOVEMENT AGAINST CHILD LABOR | | Towa Wamen Want Some Lavws for the " Protection of Youths—\esw Organized in lowa=Sn Compared for Alr Line (From a Staft Corr DES MOINES, 24.--(Spectal)—The lowa delegation in congress will bo acked to bave congress take some steps looking to a clearing up of the inevitable confiict of Authority on the reservation of the and Fox Indlans in Tama county. The ervation s In different status from other. The land belongs (o the tribe Indlans in fec simple, as they hought trom persons holding valid titles from the government. It was not land set apart for Indians. The tribo placed the control of the same in the state of lowa and the deels were held by the governor, but later the atate undertook to cede authority the United States and reserve police control but the federal court has decided this could not be done. Hence there is a good deal of uncertainty as to the attitude of the «tute and government toward these Indians. Now that a serious problem has presented itself in regard to the control of the smallpox on the Indlan lands the seriousness of the settled condition can be seen in stronger contrast. The State Board of Health, with the permisson of the secretary of the in terior, has taken charge of the smallpox situation, but if the Indians should resist proper measures there is a question as fo what the state board could or would do Accordingly the congreesional delegation to be asked for some new leglslation affect Ing fust such cascs. There is great indig pation in that part of the near Indlan tribe over the enforced negloct of | the smallpox epidemic. but neither the local authorities in towns near the indiuns nor the State Board of Health could take action and the government has no provision for a smallpox emergency pondent Nov be any of to un | s | state tha awa fo About the middle of January, at a when the lowa legislature has fairly {tselt organized for work. there will in Des Moines a conference of the office s | and delegates of women's clubs of the state | to prepare bills to be urged on the geney \l‘\ assembly fn the interest of children. It intended that hills shall be prepared re stricting child labor in factories as well in mines, for compulsory school attendan: making kidnaping of children a crime, pro viding for a juvenile court and a bill for a law to punish parents who willfully sur round children with conditions which tend | to make criminals. At this meeting program will be presented hy workers in humanitarian lines and several persons trom outside the state will be present. The movement is headed by the women of the Mothera’ club of Des Moines and others | that are afliated. The law for prevention of child labor in factories will be pushed especially hard, as the latest statistics show that child lahor In factories in Towa 1s on the increase and has already become a menace to the health and proper develop- ment of many of the children of the cities. | New Survey Completed, e« ren. time Bot heid | a | | The new survey for a railroad through Madison and Adair counties was completed yesterday. The survey runs north of the one which has been made for (he Des Moines & Southern Railroad company. One starts from a connection with the Great | Western and the other at a town on the Keokuk & Western, which Is a branch of | the Burlington syetem. Both lines pass | through Winterset That town has voted | franchises to two roads the last year and | a tax to a third and has had surveys lore, but the people are uncertain as to whether they will get the long-desired railroad. The last week & (ax has been voted to the Des Moines & Southern in Jackson township, which makes a tax prop- osition In every township through which the road is to Dass Can 1 State 1 ote. The canvass of the vote on state offi- cers will be begun on Monday by the state board. They will not open the envelopes containing the official vote on governor and lleutenant governor and nothing more will be koown of the exact and official vote on those officers until about the middle of January, when the legislature makes the count after organization. The informa- tion as to the exact vote on railroad com- missioner, superintendent of public instruc- tion and judge of the supreme court is as yet incomplete and until the board makes the canvass this week the exact majorities cannot be known. New Banks Organized. The organization of the Farmers' Sav- ings bank of Allison has been completed The capital stock is 825000, George W, Wild 1s president and L. E. Bourquin cash- fer. The bank will build a brick block in the apring. The stockholders number fort and are mostly farmers, who own over 10,000 acres of land in Butler county The Panora Savings bank has been or- | ganized in Gutbrie county and will begin | business about the middle of January. The | prosident is W. G. Roberts, but the cashier has not been selected. The capital stock 15 $30,000. To Cure a Cough Stop coughing, as it frritates the jungs and gives them no chance to heal. Foley Honey and Tar cures without causing a strain in throwing off the phlegm Ifke com mon cough expectorants. HEAVY CHARGES ARE MADE PostefMce Inapectors Cincinnatt CINCINNATI, Nov, 24.-N, 0. was errested at Bradford Junction, O post- | office {nspectors and hrought here today for | a hearing tomorrow the United States commissfoner on the charge of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. He cor ducted furniture, bicycle and jowelry business at Bradford Juiction and it churged that he ordercd goods in large quantities from New York. Chicago, Cin- cinnatl, Columbus and other cities and di posed of them without paying any bills to those from whom he made lavish pur- Deish a 18 | don | named LY BEE: MONDAY NOV EMBER™ o TITULAR ;i'SHUP OF SAMOS| \FFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA cusive Services Attend the Ve of Bt more University, on af Connty No AL | Washineton hichop of The im he presence of IMORE ‘ AL the moining of the Cathedral consecrat Cathe- Mgr rector wae \ same ressive services were graced large number the Amer- clergymon Among them Willlams P J Ireland of St of ah unusually and hishop as well as man ountry Archbishops John J M. A. Corrigan of New York of Philadelphia, John Paul, John 1. Keans of Dubuque. Bishops 1. L. Spalding of Peorla, ¢, Cove ington and ignatius K. Horstmaun of Cleve- land The faculty of the Catholic university and loading of other colleges were also presont Cardinal prelate charac Very K church history the sermon The assistant bishop-elect to the reading of archbishops of an hierarchy from all parts of the Roston Ryan Maos of educators Gibbons was the consecrating The mass, which was of splendid celebrated by the cardinal. < J. Hanahan, professor of the university, preached the During bishop presenied the consecrator the oaths the candidate knelt nd then followed the mination according to the formula established by the fourth council of Carthage. After the the bishop-elect was again presented to the consecrator, who recited the duties and powers that will fall on him. After this the open book of the gospels was placed upon his shoulders and the imposi tion of hands upon him followed After the “Te Deum’ was intoned the new bishop pessed through the chureh, giving bis blessing. The episopate labors in also a pope for in standing tution of wh mas elevation of Mgr, Conaty to the omes recognition of ht Lehalf of Catholie education and token of the apprectation of the the recent very apparent increase and influence of the insti- h the bishop is the head The position of titular bishop of Samos j& entirely honorary, the see of Samos from which the title is derived having been ex- tinet for generations OFFICER LOSES A PRISONER i as many Negroes [l Lynch One of Race for Al- leged Muvder. SHREVEPORT. lLa Nov. 24.--The par- ticulars of & sensational murder and lynch- ng have jusi reached this city from Hern- plantation, about cight miles below Shrevep on the Bossler parish side Red river The men who did the lynching were negroes and strung up one of their own race. The negro avengers not only de- upon the summary execution of vietim, but took him from the hands nined their of a white officer for that purpose The killing which led to th curred negro shot Iynching oc- night. Fraok Thomas, a on the Amelia plantation, and Kkilled a 14-vear-old negro boy Wilburn over a debt of 30 cents. The killing was witnessed by a number of excited negroe This morning Deputy Sheriff Holmes arrested Thomas and was oceeding toward Shreveport with bis pris- oner when a mob of 200 negroes and a few white men suddenly appeared in the road and took possession of Thomas and strung bim up to the limb of a tree. where the body was left hanging until this evening. EFFORT TO ACQUIRE FUNDS A Saturday employed algamnted Association May Levy Anscanment of Ten Per Cent on Wages of Members. CLEVELAND, Nov A special to the Leader from Wheeling, W. Va., says of the Amalgamated Tron and Tin Workers in the Wheeling district are now voting on. forwarded from the Pittsburg headquarters call for an assessment on each member of 10 per cent of his wages. The significance of the plan is apparent when it is realized that the strike settle ment agreement expires in eight months Several lodges in this section of the Ohio valley have voted in the afrmative. All the local lodges voted against the treaty proposed by the Steel trust and are in- clined to stand out for the hig voluntary percentage contribution from their daily wages. It i¢ taken to mean that stern clash with the $1,000,000,000 trust is due fn 1902, when the scale expires. In the recent strike lack of funds to care for new lodges was a serious drawback, DECISION IN TRIBAL TAX CASE win Association of Steel Settiement Month of Federal e Judge Reached Next Townsend ourt, ARDMORE, 1 the famous tribal down next month the United States granted forwerly restraining the Indian tribal from closing their siores for pay taxes will, he said will be ecquivalent to s 18 valid and all stores pay the tax or close. tles tried to enforce by court Judge Townsend The refusing ving that the then will have the tribal and the injunction in force was secured. Onaths of Allesinnce Munt after Be Recorded at Manila. 2, MANILA, Nov ioneral #hall be kept of all natives taking the oath of allegiance to (he Unitcd States. Dupli- cates of these rocords will be signed ¥nglish, Spanish and Tagalog. The Philip- pine constabulary, which was organized last August, Is proving itself w adjunct to the making an enviable record. | Cuitdren Are Not Attend TOPEKA. Kan., Nov Frank Nelson, superintendent of public instruetion, is completing an investigation of the Kansas educational srstem, which will show that chuses. His purchases wore in almost every line of merchandise and uggregated | many thousands of dollars, extending aver | a period of several months Tris is Agroand. MANILA, Nov. 24, The United States dis tilling ship Tris has heen aground on a ref | pear llollo for three days past. The United | States cruiser New York and the gunhoat Yorkien have gone tn ity assistance and Tar. I | ponia, or other Teday take Foley's Hona: positively prevents pneun | commitment for taanity was'the bresking of windsws. serious resuits trom colds. late tomorrow. It me7 be tos 190,660 of the 400,900 children of echool ag o the state do not atiend scheol. Kansas has @ coppuisory educational law and it ix therefore difficult to eccount for the' large porcentage of the absentecs iriah Patriot CHICAGO Trish patriot who wus © Dieman's Land n 189, after convicied of treason agal with John O Rellly in 1568 ounty hospital here Reported Dying, 4N rin Hogan, the d rom Van hav been st Great Brita'n {s dying at th Vanderkl VORK and Mrs - © a Son Nov. 3 -A son_wis born Altred Gwynne Vanderbiit NEW to Mr soniuhs Nevme | university | frutar | by of of | A gigantic fund is a proposition the lodges | The plans as | another T., Nov. 24.—A declsion in tax case will be handed in infunction to non-citizen merchants authorities to be dissolved. This tax to The tribal authori- tax about a vear ago, when its legality was questioned TO KEEP COMPLETE RECORDS | an Chaffee has ordered that in the future complete records in valuable military authorities and ie LAW NOT ENTIRELY OBEYED ng Kansns P'attsmeuth Talaphone Ordinance Has Not Been Dispesed 0 AMENDMENTS SOME ARE PROPOSED | Conmeit Wee ne win Change night Meng the from Company s to Wants Made in ¥ nosed Franchise. tonigh it 18 expect traubla about the proposed Telephone company's ordinagce now stands to tiie Plattsmouth people and the same | may be eaid of the city officials. Friends | of the Plattsmouth company will endeavor | to have some amendments made and | those who are looking after | the interests | of the city by the time will offer amendments so that the ordinance fs finally sub- | mitted it will be changed considerably | in a communication City Attorney Lambert to the couneil | explained that he had spent a great deal of time on the or dinance and consldered that it the rights of the city in every He meeting of the that there city coun will be more Plattsmouth franchise. As the satinfactory 1 | t s not city protected | « maiter In A& rather forcible Magic Clty Gossip Zack Cuddingt poking for work on @ Fallrond grading cont [ to " it N 1 Onk P and N W formerly th Falls Clty charge of a drug \inlon 1 Thursduy vesterda wenty-. 11 Thompsc will ¢ to take A Neb, Store he | day | Ar | | angoments hiyehes for to be held o AT and K s dinner. Friend MeLarty will give lecture At Masonte hall for the nt of St mple 11 kagiviT At 1020 | Thirty-fourth Thanksglving Alexander | trated evening misston Funeral iy won Thirty tiret and Mrs A\l OMAHA SUBURBS. Captain Reynolds and daughter were Umaha visitors Saturday Clarence Risley of Omaha few duys here visiting his mother Mrs. G, J. Hunt Mra. M were shopping in Thursda noon Mise Sunday e and I Omaha ant Raturd visitin Lule Raymeond in South Omaba requested as a special favor that no | ehanges or alterations be made which migh tend to make it illegal. In spite of this re quest the chances are that several amend ments will be offered and possibly some them will be adopted In a statement made o The Beo days ago an officer of the Plattsmouth company «ald that the company would walt | until it could submit the proposition to the voters at the spring clection. From efforte being made to have alterations made in the ordinance now before the coun cil it Jooks as if minds had changed within the last fow hours of | | fow | | H the will be the city physiclan and Board of Health ordinances. These have been passed and the mayor will be called upon to make his appointments Nicholas Nelson Killed. holas Nelson Forty-fifth aud L streets evening in a runaway the afternoon Nelson ieft his wife and voung son out into the country. harness broke and Nelson was thrown the buggy and his horse's heels. Mrs » a farmer living at was killed last | fdent. Late in | his home with intending to drive A portion of the the horse ran away over the dashboard of skull crushed by the Nelson and ‘her son were thrown out of the rig, but they were not infured bevond a few minor bruises The first Intimation anyone had of the accident was wheo the horse returned home with an empty buggy. Colonel J. J. Hurt, | who owns the sheep ranch adjoining the Nelson place, instituted a search and found the body of Nelson lying in the road. He immediately sent for physicians. but as life was extinct nothing could be done. | The doctors attended Mre, Nelson and her son. Undertaker George Brewer was sent for and the bady was taken to the family home. Apnouncement of the funeral will be made later. | Dr. White Siated. It lias been given out unofficially that Dr. W. S. White is to succeed Dr. James Kelly as county physician in South Omiha. Commiesioner-elect O'Keeffe has sald he in- clines to the appointment of White. When this information became known yesterday a great many democrats started on a still bunt for O'Keeffe with protests in thel: pockets. While those who protest do not seems o have any particular candidate in view, they do object to White, as he is considered entirely too old for the position and his popularity is considered to be on | the wane, A prominent democratic politician sail Iast night that it Mr. O'Keeffe appointed Dr. White there would be all kinds of trouble brewing. as the party would not accept the appointment without making a protest. “What the people here want,” said this politiclan, “is a physiclan who s up-to-date who can handle cases at any time of the day or night. We want a| young man and Mr. O'Keefte will be called | upon today in regard to this matter.” When Dick O'Keeffe was seen by a re- porter for The Bee last night he said tbat he favored White necause of his supposed inflnence. The new county commissiouer further said that he had five applications for the place, but he considered Dr. White competent to do the work required Scarlet Fever Increasing. Two cases of scarlet fever were reportad to Inspector Jones yesterduy. One is Ed C. Wilber, 1608 North Twenty-sxth streef., and the other is at the home of J. A, Cavers Twenty-seventh apd C streets. This in- crease in contagious and infectious dis- ease {8 causing a great deal of work in the sanitary department and help will soon be needed. It Is expected that Mayor Kelly will soon take up the matter of appointing a city phy- sician and naming two members of the Board of Health. These two members wiil be business men. In speaking of this matter yesterday the mayor said that he had no even copsidered the appofotments to be made, but would take up the matter today. As the local medical soclety has recom- mended Dr. Sapp for the office of city physi- it is presumed the mayor will make this appointment. More Smallpox Canes Sanitary Inspector Jones was notified yosterday of a case of smallpox at the home of Tony Burke, Twentieth street, between N and O streets, and another at the Tange- man dwelliug, Thirteenth and I street Investigation shows that the Kunts case at Twenty-ninth and Monroe streets, which wan reported Saturday, wua imported from Stoux Oty. Mary Kuntz is the name of the patient. Inspector Jones asserts that a week ago the youog woman was working in & packing house canning factory at Sioux City. When she was taken ill she was told that she would either bave to go (o the pesthouse or return to her bome in South Omaha. She lefi Sioux City at once and as soov as she arrived bere the case was reported to the city offcials and her home quarantined Tospector Jones sass that this is the sec- ond case this year where persons witd smallpox brve been shipped out of Sioux City and sent here. Lambert Keeps Busy. City Attorney Lambert s wakiog a good showing in the courts these days in dam age claims againet the city by exhibiting photographe of sldewalks where it is al- leged injuries have been sustained. In one recent case witnesses testified to a certaln condition of the walk and the photographs, | taken only a few hours after the supposed accident, 4l4 pot hear out the testimony By the showing of photographs Mr. Lan bert expects to win quits & mumher af suits now pepding agalns the city Woold Reduee Expenses One or two members of the ity council | favor the reduction of expenses by cutting | oft the pay of ciry ofcials who make a | practice ot ahsenting themselves from duty | far n week at a time. This thing is af sommon aecurrence and still the salary | relt halde aut, and the afeials in question | drmw thelr vegular atipsnd withont having | given the taxpeyers any adeqoate retmros | Marer Kellys auention s to be ealled to \ motber. LW daughter. Crookshank of Omaha Mrs. Newel Burton | Sund Mies McKercher of Ruest of Mis. Sarah this week Rey i B air, Neb Tracy the the last inary terian The volunteer fire department annual and gave a ball at hall Wednesday night, November Miss Mabel Caskey occupled chuarch pulpit Sundu n reviey 20, turned to ber Saturday Rev. A two day family of Thureday evening, Mre. Walter Weber, who the past three weeks visiting relativ turned home ai Wayne T stopping at Tekamah for a short vi The Ladies guild of St church met at the home of Mrs Foulk last Wednesday. The next will be at Mra. J. Weber's, jr., We afternoon home at Big Eprings of Finch of Fremont, Nel this week visiting H. Holtzman, koing wi to her Renson day evening at tor a week Servic at the Methodist pal church at 11 a. m the pastar, Rev. Luce the church was today Sunday Mrs visiting at james A Mre. George turned home last week from a few visit with friends in Blair. Mr. and Mrs. Bellis of Missouri Benson, visiting at the home of Aaughter. Mre. Harvey J. Grove Rev last Sunday morning at the church in the absence of the pastor. Howard day clety will be o ganl; son. Woodmen camp a now candidate initiated by the degree team. ma nner | busin | serve Kari month Tuesd refreshments wers wvho Barnes with fr ha pen o Henaon hom r nnder out agaly ! ctier and able to be there ted " remain 1 apending A& Miss Til her recen The Wodn Mrs \ nily from r {itn. Womar Mre > Dupdee day with meet this Hamilton 8. Leavitt weoks Round al Wednesday at the home of My More so that who en quite 411 sadily mat The Dozen So: Iast Rush waek, village telephones nearly were every house Mrs Kansa heen in months The Dundee on Friday | Joseph J | 1age having on Clayton City to reside. there Goodvich coon adrich for has tow Mr. business for the last inday echool gave a sociabie "k at the home of Rew all the people of tha vl asked to participate elen ever Lampe b on Griffin after visited his Saturday and was the Thursday Yuel of the Omaha Theolugical sem Presby- had the city who has been visiting Other matters to be considered tonight | *¢latives here for the past two months, re- Neb,, pent th B n 1esd it Mark's Episcopal meeting nesday The meeting to have heen held last Tues- postponed Episco- will ba conducted by Miss May Hamilton of Lincoln spent last the home of Mr Hawkins and children re- | dave’ are their Plerson of Omaha filled the pulpit Methodist | Miss Margaret Safford, who spent a few | days visiting with friends in Benson, re- | turned to her home in Lincoln, last Wednes- | At the regular meeting of the Modern vas After the | me, Council Bluffs, 1dw hera and Dr. Lyon's ‘Tooth Powder AN ELEGANT TOILET LUXURY. 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